Archive for March, 2006

Sprint TV over the past couple of months has begun to expand its offerings of free content (to customers with Vision but no Sprint TV package). This is enabling Sprint to begin testing advertising-supported free content offerings on Sprint TV. Fox initially began offering limited versions of its FX show “Black. White.” without [...]

Since the release of PRL (Preferred Roaming List) 10031 and 20219, Sprint has made significant improvements to the PRL Update system. While you still have to call customer service, and find a rep that knows how to issue a PRL update, you do not need to wait through multiple prompts for the PRL update [...]

Samsung Java 2 phones with Sprint now finally can take advantage of handset-based GPS services. Due to issues with bugs in Samsung’s gpsOne implementation of Sprint’s API, Sprint has been unable to certify these devices for GPS usage… until recently.
Be sure to update your firmware to the latest version, by going to Menu > [...]

As a part of Sprint’s Java 2 API extensions, included in every MM-class phone, is voice recognition. This is in addition to Sprint’s other Java 2 API extensions such as gpsOne support for LBS.
Sprint this week began offering voice search access to ringtones. The application is a free download on Sprint’s download store [...]

SuperDave, known for many phone hacks across the mobile spectrum, has released yet another unsupported ROM for a device. The Samsung i730, as we have previously reported, will be updated to Windows Mobile 5. Beta devices have surfaced containing this update, and that has enabled the release of the beta firmware to all.
We [...]

cool.Prepaid has halted sales on their web site for all Motorola phones, flagging all Motorola devices as being out-of-stock. This has effectively halted all phone sales by the carrier, leaving the online store with only the SIM card as an available product. cool.Prepaid was exclusively selling Motorola phones.
News blog Phone Scoop reports that [...]

Sprint has partnered with InfoSpace to offer their own point-to-point navigational offering. Sprint Find It! will launch on over 20 phones, and will offer navigation services to businesses using the InfoSpace directory.
The application has been immediately met with comparisons to Google’s Local for Mobile Java application, but actually compares much more closely to the [...]

We’re currently aiming for next week to bring our new forums online. Currently we are planning to deploy Invision Power Board… unless enough people complain about it. Want us to use another forum? Feedback helps.
Our podcast has suffered more bugs and delays, so we’ll be bringing a no-frills version early in the [...]

Motorola’s new website for the Q has stated an April launch date. Verizon Wireless has already said they will be the exclusive launch carrier for the device.

Motorola Q Promo PageUpdate: The April 2006 reference on the web page has been removed. It has been replaced with a statement of “shipping soon” for the [...]

Sprint’s Application Developer Program will be following the trend of other providers such as Cingular and will be offering a Developer Educational series of webcasts. Their first webcast will be on March 29th with three sessions, focusing on developing applications for Power Vision devices.
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